Tempted to give this game a 5 star review, but it really isn't one in my opinion. 4 Stars is being extremely generous if you asked me, for what the game does well, it never really seems to strive for anything other than mediocrity. I'm unsure exactly who developed this title, but it quite literally feels to me as though this was them not giving it their all even the slightest.
You play as Dorena, a fairly strong and reputed swordswoman who is known for wielding two blades. You're given the sense of how strong her personality is supposed to be close to the beginning of the game, but things very quickly change and go the other way.. She starts off at odds with a character at one point, not liking him at all, but then very shortly afterwards actually considers hopping on his dick after getting cursed.
Story is actually fairly standard, has a nice concept and actually fills the gaps in between quite nicely. You have a variety of characters, both male and female to get into trouble with or watch and you're enabled to get right into the meat of the game fairly quickly.
Music is actually not entirely bad, though if I'm not mistaken I believe a lot of it is RPGM music already used in the past (I've heard a lot of these songs before) but I'm more speaking of the music being used for each scene.
Combat and exploration are rather short and sweet.. but being honest.. Exploration is almost non-existent. There's a few little interesting secrets hidden here and there that you can find if you look around at the right times, but most "Exploration" is simply put to wander around and figure out how to get laid at night if you're not doing the True Route. Combat itself is extremely standard, but the strategies needed to beat most of the bosses is actually a bit more than I had initially expected.. Still not really difficult by any means, but you end up finding yourself actually having to stop and think about your next move in most boss fights, which is atypical for an eroge.
Hentai scenes and everything are all fairly nice to look at, I'd argue most of them are a bit plain, and it takes a while before you're able to see any of the really good stuff, and you get basically nothing if you go the True Route. The game also has a very particular scene that seems to be the point of no return.. If Dorena sees the sex scene at the spa.. She apparently can't come back from it.. at all and you're destined to basically get one of two of the bad routes.
Overall, I didn't really hate this game and it served as a nice distraction for a time. But it almost felt like the developer really just wasn't into this game. True Route is apparently supposed to be the True Story, but there's no real love shown for it other than a rather wholesome ending. And even though Dorena is slowly getting worse and worse in her desire for sex, nothing really changes gameplay wise except if you don't do something to stop your cravings you get stunned every now and again... Or story wise.. Once you fuck Dylan, You basically can't do the true route anymore.. and Lascivious will comment about it at one point.. and that's.. pretty much it.
But.. getting back on track, the game is.. as everyone is saying.. Fairly mid, but the translator has done a very good job on working on this. Watters didn't really make this game (I think at least!) and is merely translating the game, and they actually did a really good job on that.
TLDR:
Pros:
+ Game attempts to make dungeons be as short and sweet or as long as you want them to be
+ The pacing for corruption actually feels about right
+ Game actually has a story and builds upon itself as it goes
+ It ACTUALLY explains why so many men are succumbing to her so easily
+ You get to see other girls do stuff occasionally (Not nearly enough though)
+ Combat requires some strategy even if it overall isn't that compelling
+ Characters are actually varied and not all the same
Cons:
- There's almost no exploration
- Combat is extremely standard which makes grinding monotonous.
- Expedited dungeon crawling is interesting on paper, but not that amazing in practice
- Hentai scenes really needed more variety, more sounds, more images.. But at least it has constant sound and decent dialogue
- The Hentai of the game may as well be completely separate from the combat AND the story, there is virtually no intermingling between any of the major portions of the game up until certain checkpoints are reached.
- There's really only two paths to go for this game, and endings are basically decided upon where your cut off point is.
Overall, game itself belongs somewhere in probably the 3 star range.. I gave it a 4 simply cause I just couldn't bring myself to say the game is all that bad.. And because I think the only one checking this page is the one doing the English Translations.
It's just sad, it wouldn't have taken much to really boost my opinion of the game, but to ever be able to call this game great or amazing.. I'd personally want to see a rework of a lot of things.
Thank you for the Translation btw Watters!
